The Night Guest : A Novel (Paperback)

from Boito_2

Quite a debut. McFarlane juggles a complex situation beautifully so that, even after completing it, I continue to question my understanding of the crucial situations. The protagonist, Ruth, may be dealing with dementia, but she may be more in touch with reality than anyone around her, especially ...

from bookishtexpat

Oh this was weird and delightful and totally creepy. I love Ruth - I'm not usually a big fan of elderly protagonists but Fiona McFarlane writes Ruth and Richard beautifully. Frida is also brilliant. Y'all, I had sort of a clue but not a clue about the strangeness Frida embodied and it was wonderf...

from elkiedee

Ruth, a widow in her seventies, lives in an isolated house within sight and sound of the sea. Alone with her memories of an early love and then her late husband, she thinks that she can hear a tiger prowling around her house. Then Frida arrives one day, claiming to have been sent by the governmen...

from stephengoldenberg

A very slow-burning novel which requires patience. I was not expecting much from it fearing that the author had jumped on to the mini bandwagon of novels with narrators suffering from some kind of mental illness, autism, alzheimers etc. In this case, Ruth, the narrator, is a 75 year old widow wit...

from amandacb

The Night Guest is a psychological thriller; you know something is not right with the "government carer," and there is little you can do but watch (read) as the narrative unfolds. And then, as the narrative unfolds, you realize there is something not right with the narrator. It really pays some h...